On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:00 -0700, Marc D. Field wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my Palm to sync with jpilot on my Centos > system via USB. When I sync, I get this error in jpilot: > > pi_accept Illegal seek > Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_PI_ACCEPT > Finished > > I have jpilot syncing fine with this Palm over the network, BTW. For > USB, I set things up for udev as described on various websites. That may be the problem. My palm sync works fine as a user without any mods to udev, as long as I initiate the sync on the palm and then click the Sync button in jpilot within a few seconds. I am in the uucp group. My "serial port" is /dev/ttyUSB1 in jpilot/preferences/settings. > Here > are the relevant ports & symlink (created and deleted automatically with > each sync attempt): > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 17 09:09 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Oct 17 09:09 /dev/ttyUSB0 > crw------- 1 marc uucp 188, 1 Oct 17 09:09 /dev/ttyUSB1 Here are my ports: [prs at wx1 ~]$ ll /dev/ttyU* /dev/pilot ls: /dev/pilot: No such file or directory crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Oct 20 10:21 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 1 Oct 20 10:21 /dev/ttyUSB1 > I added myself to the uucp group. It doesn't look like this is a > permissions issue, does it? Possibly. > (I saw a message in the list's archives > indicating that one must start jpilot as root in order to sync, but this > doesn't make sense to me.) No need to be root as long as you are in the uucp group. > Any ideas as to what's going wrong? Are others syncing Palm devices to > their Centos boxes via USB (and from normal user accounts)? > > I have tried other things, such as using a different USB port on the PC, > and having jpilot sync to /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 instead of the > /dev/pilot symlink. I've also searched the jpilot mailing list > archives, and the web in general, and still no solution. I'm running an > up to date Centos 4 system, pilot-link-0.11.8-8, and self-compiled > jpilot 0.99.9. My (self-compiled) versions: jpilot-0.99.8-7.1 pilot-link-0.11.8-16 I see rawhide (my SRPM source) is still at jpilot-0.99.8-7.1.src.rpm pilot-link-0.11.8-16.src.rpm And EL5 beta is using jpilot-0.99.8-7.1 pilot-link-0.11.8-16 Perhaps 0.99.9 is too far ahead of the curve, or it is a permissions problem. Good luck, Phil